Some precious productions of the species of delphinulae enriched the treasures of Captain Nemo, to which I added an astraea punctifera, a kind of parasite polypus often found fixed to a shell.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

The old hag was in a pitiful bad plight and condition in matter of the outward state and complexion of her body, the ragged and tattered equipage of her person in the point of accoutrement, and beggarly poor provision of fare for her diet and entertainment; for she was ill apparelled, worse nourished, toothless, blear-eyed, crook-shouldered, snotty, her nose still dropping, and herself still drooping, faint, and pithless; whilst in this woefully wretched case she was making ready for her dinner porridge of wrinkled green coleworts, with a bit skin of yellow bacon, mixed with a twice-before-cooked sort of waterish, unsavoury broth, extracted out of bare and hollow bones.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Tuntúni ug mga lima ka dupa ang pasul, Pay out five fathoms of line.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The tenses of the infinitive follow their usual law ( 2218 ), representing the action as present, past, or future, from the speaker’s point of view.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

[552] In the ancient Greek world the annual celebration of the Mysteries drew great concourses of people from all regions round the Mediterranean; to the modern Breton world the chief religious Pardons are annual events of such supreme importance that, after preparing plenty of food for the pilgrimage, the whole family of a pious peasant of Lower Brittany will desert farm and work dressed in their beautiful and best costumes for one of these Pardons, the most picturesque, the most inspiring, and the highest folk-festivals still preserved by the Roman Church; while to Roman Catholics in all countries a pilgrimage to Lough Derg is the sacred event of a lifetime.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

While some of the soldiers looked in blind terror for a place of concealment, others seized upon a keg of whiskey in one of the rooms and quaffed the liquor with eager thirst; while others, again, piled packs of furs, furniture, and all else within their reach, against the windows, to serve as a barricade.
— from The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman

As the visitor was a good hunter and procured plenty of food for his hosts, she envied them and resolved to kill the new comer.
— from The Central Eskimo Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 399-670 by Franz Boas

The modern witch was a very different character, and joined to her pretended power of foretelling future events that of working evil upon the life, limbs, and possessions of mankind.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Charles Mackay

Cartridges are cases of paper, parchment, or flannel, fitted
— from A System of Pyrotechny Comprehending the theory and practice, with the application of chemistry; designed for exhibition and for war. by James Cutbush

To ensure the proper growth and development of these organisms every condition must be perfect, correct temperature, proper proportions of food for them to live on, and a certain degree of alkalinity or acidity of the vat, and these points are most difficult to regulate as they will vary very much from time to time.
— from The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics by Franklin Beech

I knew it was a perfect piece of folly for that schoolmistress to take her to support, with only her small salary.
— from Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland by Retta Babcock

A parliamentary paper of fifty folio pages need not and cannot be reproduced here; but its substance may be rendered intelligible in a few paragraphs.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

The little grey streaks and patches might have been powder put on for fun.
— from Mary Olivier: a Life by May Sinclair